Church of St John the Baptist
CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060324
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060324
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John the Baptist
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oake
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 15985 26457
Details
OAKE CP HEATHFIELD ST12NE 4/137 Church of St John the Baptist (previously listed under Norton Fitzwarren CP) 25.2.55 GV II Parish church. C13 tower, chancel rebuilt 1841,vestry added 1869-70,church refenestrated and extensively restored.Mid C19 work by Edward Ashworth. Red sandstone random rubble, slate roofs, decorative ridge tiles, coped verges to porch only. West tower, 2 bay nave, South East chapel now organ chamber adjoining South porch, chancel and vestry. 3 stage tower with parapet, originally gabled, diagonal buttresses, string courses, chamfered plinth, 2-light trefoil headed louvred bell-openings, rectangular louvred opening on South front,3-light West window lancet in South wall of nave,single storey gabled porch with kneelers, moulded pointed arch opening, pointed moulded inner doorway, C19 door, C19 wagon roof, nave roof continued as catslide over one bay chapel right, 2-light window, chancel 3-light trefoil headed mullioned window left of priest's door, lancet right, 3-light East Window, single storey vestry to North,2-light window on North wall of chancel, 2 on North wall of nave. Interior: rendered except for random rubble West wall. Tower arch chamfered in 2 orders dying into inposts, chancel arch of wood corbelled out, depressed moulded Tudor arch to chapel. C19 ribbed barrel vaulted roofs in nave and chancel, chamfered lateral beams in chapel, Pulpit composed of bench ends reset when church reseated mid C19. C16 painted wall tablet with kneeling figures to Hadley family in chancel.Coloured tile dado in sanctuary, dating like the other fittings from 1869. (A Guided Tour of Heathfield Church Somerset, 1981).
Listing NGR: ST1598526457
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271022
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
A Guided Tour of Heathfield Church Somerset, (1981)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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